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Poetry should be able to reach everybody,and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.- Peter Davison

But for me, being an editor I've been an editor ofall kinds of books being an editor of poetry has beenthe way in which I could give a crucial part of mytime to what I love most.- Peter Davison

I just think that some version of the past in our cultureis going to rise up and become dominant.- Peter Davison

But poetry is my life.Poetry is what matters to me.- Peter Davison

If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to thinkthat I had written some poems that people are not going to forget.- Peter Davison

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.- Peter Davison

Poetry is composing for the breath.- Peter Davison

But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous,too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom.A certain freedom to live in a free way.- Peter Davison

Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.- Peter Davison

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its musclebecause nobody knows any.Nobody has to memorize poetry.- Peter Davison

I like poems that are complex.- Peter Davison

There are so many things that poetry is about,one of which is memory.- Peter Davison

The trouble with the performance poets is that theydon't seem to have read anything.So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.- Peter Davison

For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago,but something like 70% of the poems I receive seemto be written in the present indicative.- Peter Davison

It is very difficult for people to come in contactwith their own emotions and their own sensibilities.- Peter Davison

The problem, for me, with the writing programs is thatthey produce a terrible uniformity of product.- Peter Davison

Every so often I find some poems that are too goodfor the readers of The Atlantic because they are alittle too involved with the nature of poetry,as such.- Peter Davison

It is a way we reassess our past.We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.- Peter Davison

In order to understand what they need to understand,in order to write what they write, they have to be free.And yet, they aren't ever free.They are not free because they are not free of theconstrictions their art puts on them.- Peter Davison

They need to learn poetry.They don't need to learn about poetry.They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry.They don't need to be told how to understand poetry.They need to learn it.- Peter Davison

The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant.What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting.And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it.He hopes there is somebody receiving it.- Peter Davison

People are talking about the Internet as though itis going to change the world.It's not going to change the world.It's not going to change the way we think,and it's not going to change the way we feel.- Peter Davison

My friends never talk to me about my poetry becausethey're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassedby what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things,but they are the state of human existence.- Peter Davison

Dealing with poetry is a daunting task,simply because the reason one does it as an editorat all is because one is constantly coming to termswith one's own understanding of how to understand the world.- Peter Davison

Anger is like a thorn in the heart.- Yiddish Proverb

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.We give our own meaning to time as to life.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coalwith the intent of throwing it at someone else;you are the one who gets burned.- The Buddha

Sing like no one's listening,love like you've never been hurt,dance like nobody's watching,and live like its heaven on earth.- Mark Twain

If I try to be like him, who will be like me?- Yiddish proverb

Minds are like parachutes.They only function when they are open.- James Dewar

We have only this moment,sparkling like a star in our hand -and melting like a snowflake.- Marie B. Ray

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.You never know what you're gonna get.- the movie Forrest Gump

A person without a sense of humoris like a wagon without springs.It's jolted by every pebble on the road.- Henry Ward Beecher

Find your balance and stand with it.Find your song and sing it out.Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.Find the questions that only you know how to ask andThe answers that you are content to not know.- Mary Anne Radmacher

Just stop it. Seriously.Whatever it is. Just stop it.If only for an hour, a day, a week.Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpseof what the change would actually look like.- Mary Anne Radmacher

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Timelike dew on the tip of a leaf.- Rabindranath Tagore

Obstacles are like wild animals.They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.If they see you are afraid of them...they are liable to spring upon you;but if you look them squarely in the eye,they will slink out of sight.- Orison Swett Marden

People are like stained glass windows,they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,but when darkness sets in their true beautyis revealed only if there is a light from within.- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"Be like me" is not a Golden Rule.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,easy to get into, but hard to get out of.- Proverb

Love is like the truth,sometimes it prevails,sometimes it hurts.- Victor M. Garcia Jr.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance,self-denial, hard work, sacrifice,dedication and respect for authority.- Vince Lombardi

A closed mind is like a closed book;just a block of wood.- Chinese proverb

To dream of the person you would like to beis to waste the person you are.- Anonymous

The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.- don Miguel Ruiz

People that seem so glorious are all show;underneath they are like everyone else.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

This time, like all times, is a very good one,if we but know what to do with it.- Ralph Waldo Emerson